Watch: Citizen tries to stop group smoking marijuana … fails

Thus begins a video going viral that shows just how strange it still is for marijuana to be readily available and openly consumed … even where it is still illegal to do so.

A member of an evangelical group tried to get law enforcement officers present at a 4/20 pot-smoking celebration near Philadelphia’s historic Independence Hall to stop the weed smoking …

“… they’re smoking marijuana … I would like you to enforce the law. You have children out here passing by the sidewalk. You can arrest me if you want, but I’m not going to tolerate the police doing nothing about this.”

In the video … the evangelist who was reportedly on hand to share the “gospel of Jesus Christ” is heard questioning park rangers on why they aren’t arresting a large group of attendees who appear to be smoking marijuana, an illegal substance under federal law.

One ranger tells him that the gathering has “a permit with the parks” to congregate in the space. Marcarvage frustratedly notes that they haven’t technically been sanctioned to smoke weed and asks to speak with a supervisor. Marcarvage then presses the supervising ranger, who tells him that dispersing the crowd would constitute “an officer safety issue.”